Social networking solution enhancement for Connector.org
Project overview
Conveniently accumulating a vast network of professional contacts is a must effort for any existing business nowadays. To get those potential employees, contractors, and partners, entrepreneurs, companies use specialized social networking platforms. And providers like our client use new extensive types of such platforms. Particularly, Connector.org hired us to expand their existing professional networking web application with e-learning features and capabilities.
Client information
Connector.org is a US-based provider of the eponymous professional networking web app with an established community and offers wide social functionality. The company mainly focuses on building up its platform and expanding in order to give users a multipurpose networking portal where they could not only communicate with other market players and acquire connections but also employ various related opportunities. E-learning to be among them.
Business challenge
Profiled online education is a highly demanded resource among mass users nowadays. We set out to add educational functionality to the existing Connector.org social platform. This ultimately enables business learners to find work and connect with potential employers in one place, right upon gathering enough knowledge on the working subject.
Technical challenges
We needed to develop e-learning software features that would allow platform users to provide course curriculums and educational materials (including readings, videos, assignments, evaluation criteria, etc.) for online training in a free field of specialties. Another focus was also to implement interactive microblogging for learners and course leaders in terms of the new e-learning functionality. We inherited the baseline software’s source code to elaborate upon, PSD files for different views, and build and deployment instructions from the previous team working on the main Connector.org project.
Solution delivered
We developed e-learning software functionality that offers respective capabilities for different user roles – curriculum owners (those who create curriculums), providers (those who offer readymade curriculums to the Connector.org community), leaders (those leading training courses), instructors (those providing live or recorded training sessions), learners (those taking courses), and team leaders (those leasing small groups of other learners). Each type of user gets the respective capabilities and interface elements to logically contribute to the organization of the overall educational process.
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Key features
Simple interface
The new e-learning interface is ultimately easy to handle, with simple lists of courses and comprehensive interaction elements.
Media uploading
Curriculum creators and editors can freely upload media files of the most diverse formats, including PDF files, videos, tables, and so on.
Flexible education
Different curriculum owners, providers, and leaders decide the structure and contents of every other course individually.
Web functionality
Available online, the Connector.org web app is a highly accessible solution that can be easily launched on any device.
Value to our client
Our tech stack
C#
